Continuing in the Truth of the Word

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Continuing in the Truth of the Word

The Lord's Day Morning May 15, 2005 II Timothy 3:10-17 “Continuing in the Truth of the Word” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter three, verse ten. Have you ever composed in your mind the last words that you were going to say to someone? Really–the last words. They were getting ready to depart this life; may have been a friend you’re going to see in the hospital, and you knew that this might be the last time that you would be with that friend. Or maybe it was a friend from another land. You knew that in parting, it was unlikely, unless the Lord brought about some extraordinary providence, that He would put the two of you back together in the same place; and you knew that in this world this might be the…

Flee and Pursue

The Lord's Day Morning April 17, 2005 II Timothy 2:22-26 “Flee and Pursue” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter two. As we've been working through this great book together, we've seen Paul in this chapter over and over give glorious directions, imperatives, to this young minister, Timothy. And we've seen that those directions are relevant to any age, any era of ministry. But we've also seen that these instructions for Timothy are not just for Timothy, and they’re not just for preachers, and they’re not just for elders; but they’re for the whole church–the whole of the people of God. Even when Paul is giving directions to Timothy, there is something for us to learn in those…

A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline

The Lord's Day Morning February 13, 2005 II Timothy 1:1-7 “A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to II Timothy, chapter one. We have been working through the three pastoral letters of Paul — I Timothy, Titus, and now II Timothy — for some months now on Lord's Day mornings, on and off. We've taken them out of the order that they’re found in the Scripture. They move from I Timothy to II Timothy and Titus in your Bibles. We've taken them in chronological order, the order in which Paul wrote them, so we have moved from I Timothy to Titus, and now to II Timothy. This is Paul's last letter. He writes it imprisoned and awaiting his sentence of execution. He's calmly facing the last great crisis of his life, and as he does…

The Love of Money

The Lord's Day Morning October 17, 2004 I Timothy 6:3-10 “The Love of Money” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter six. As you do so, I'd just draw your attention to how the wonderful text from the Psalms that we've just heard the choir sing ties in with not only our Call to Worship and our opening song of praise to God, but how it ties into the passage we're going to read now in terms of trusting in God's providence for His provision,…

Caring for the Church

The Lord's Day Morning September 29, 2004 I Timothy 5:1-16 “Caring for the Church” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to First Timothy, chapter five. We've been working through this book of First Timothy as part of a larger study of three letters often called “the Pastoral Epistles”: I Timothy, II Timothy, and Titus. We've noted how throughout this letter the Apostle Paul not only gives wise advice and counsel from an old,…

The Mystery of Godliness

The Lord's Day Morning August 22, 2004 I Timothy 3:14-16 “The Mystery of Godliness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter three. We’re working our way through this book. In fact, we're working our way through the Pastoral Epistles, these three letters from Paul, a veteran pastor, church planter, evangelist and missionary, to a young pastor named Timothy and another young pastor/church planter named Titus. In those…

The Goal of Christian Ministry

The Lord's Day Morning June 20, 2004 I Timothy 1:3-5“The Goal of Christian Ministry” Turn with me to I Timothy, chapter one, and the third verse. I Timothy is a book about the church. If we ask the question “What is the Church supposed to be like?” this is one of the best books in the Bible to go to, to find the answer. Of course, its companion letters in the Pastoral Epistles, II Timothy and Titus, all address very specifically the questions of, “What the local church ought to…

Truth and Love In Life

The Lord's Day April 25, 2004 3 John 1-8 Truth and Love in Life Turn with me to 3 John, as we continue to make our way through these three, little letters of the Apostle John. We have just finished a brief look at the 2nd letter, and today we are moving into that 3rd letter, a letter short enough to be written on one single sheet of papyrus in John's day. It is addressed from “the elder” again, just like 2nd John. This time, however, instead of being addressed to “the elect…

Do Not Take Him In

The Lord's Day April 18th, 2004 2 John 5-13Do Not Take Him In If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 2 John. We’re continuing our study of 1, 2, and 3 John today. We've already observed that the letter of 2 John in a very warm and cordial way, in addressing a local congregation of Christians, applies the principles that John has elaborated more clearly and comprehensively in the letter of 1 John. One of the things that we saw John say over and over in 1 John was…

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